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Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

While I am glad that Coors car is one, and if it is the only one surviving, hurray for

Colorado...BUT....IS that the only one remaining out of thousands of such cars?  Must

be others serving as chicken coops behind barns on ranches and farms somewhere....

 

While the Coors reefer is a repaint, at least it's a wood-sided reefer, like the originals. Not many of any kind of old wood cars left. (That Armour reefer is a later steel-sided one, of course.) It's no surprise there are so few of them left, given that wooden cars would have a fairly limited lifespan. An original of these woodside reefers would be about 80 years old now!

 

There are a scattering of old boxcars/reefers you occasionally see out west here on ranches, used for storage or whatever. But they're all old steel cars, at least all the ones I've seen. I saw an old orange Santa Fe map reefer in a field a number of years ago, with the Santa Fe route map on one side and "Route of the Chief" on the other. Pretty cool.

 

Well, at least here's a Coors "billboard" switcher :

 

(Re: the odd hoppers, Coors operates with a fleet of eleven of these captive covered hoppers to move grain products from the East Silo west to the brewery. These hoppers are custom-equipped with pneumatic gates and electrical hookups tied into timers in the brewing process. This enables the cars to release a precise amount of grain directly into seep tanks at the appropriate time in the brewing process—even if no one’s around!)

 

Last edited by breezinup

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